Posted on 08/24/2024 12:59:41 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Is that ‘per item’ or ‘per order’?..........
If scanning my Costco card is a requirement to get into the store and it pisses off those damn' Amish so much that they get all uppity about it, then I'm all for it.
Keep those trashy Amish the hell out of Costco and improve my experience. I'm good with it.
“Costco is probably losing a lot from theft”;
I’m sure that’s true, but people who have carda scanned can steal just as much as anyone else can.
We’ve always had to show a card to get in to Costco.
Bears repeating, LOUDER.
I don’t think they are out of the product. They buy up lots and then when that is gone they are done. They don’t always intend to buy up the product again.
[Question: can family members enter with the one card? If not, I can see a problem.]
Costco- No. I forgot my card and wife was saying in car to nurse the baby. I went in with her card. Got caught at checkout. They let me through but gave me the stink eye and said it wasn’t supposed to be allowed.
Eastern Washington here.
I would regularly let my card expire, go in and shop to see if I wanted anything that was worth the membership price on top of the purchase. Sometimes I would renew quickly, others I might wait a year. Now that I found that my prescriptions with the membership discount are much cheaper than a drugstore I’ll keep the membership on.
I’ll show mine the next time I go but I don’t really see the need. So, you’re stopping people from just walking in to see what Costco is all about. You can’t buy anything though without a valid card, so WTF?
Oh! I guess in some locations where you can steal up to $900 worth of stuff and not be charged, maybe it makes sense there.
but you don’t have to have a membership card to vote...do you?
Except they're known to the company, not some stranger, and can be prosecuted.
Anonymity is a cornerstone of theft.
Next time you need to fill a precription, go to your grocery store pharmacy and check their prices. I found my local Kroger affiliated store to be less than half the cost of my drug store. I think Publix too.
Sounds like the new policy is keep out the scumbags. Go get a membership if you want to shop there.
Is there a sign that says, “You have to have a membership card to get inside”?
Why? Even if you snuck in to that exclusive club, you can’t buy anything because they scan your card at the checkout.
Employee theft is 10s of billions a year, and they are very well known.
You used to have to show a valid card to get your stuff checked out.
Well said.
Exactly.
Very possible they don’t want to be threatened by people that don’t have valid memberships?
By definition Costco is a membership store.
Not open to the general public.
Put security GUYS(not women) at the entrance and
the employees will be much better off.
Full disclosure, Been a Costco member since their only store was in Kirkland WA.
I’m in Hawaii now and still a member.
Just bought a refrigerator from them.
Aloha!
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